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- Microsoft to push IE 8 to more business users in August
- Microsoft to push IE 8 to more business users in AugustFINALLY!Please...Please... Please TO ALL corporations and individuals: upgrade away from IE 6.. PLEASE! You don't have to go to IE 8...firefox, chrome, Opera..will do. But for the love of Pete... IE 6 needs to go. TO MS: THANKS for...
- Tags: Web browsers, Microsoft Internet Explorer, IE 8, Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, Microsoft Corp., IE8
- Discussion threads 2009-06-30
- Dean at critical point in health reform debate
- The former Vermont Governor, Presidential candidate and Democratic National Committee chair has gone back to his roots, using his status as a doctor, and his original campaign organization, to push for a "public option" in health reform. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Howard Dean, Health Care, Insurance Industry, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Government, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-03-27
- Insurance industry renews offer to end underwriting
- Insurance industry renews offer to end underwritingHow about one payer... but with a twist, the goverment pays them to handlethe details. They handle the end user support and pay the doctors when bills arrive. They enforce the rules as to who gets what.Maybe they could offer a product...
- Tags: Insurance Industry, insurance
- Discussion threads 2009-03-25
- Insurance industry renews offer to end underwriting
- The main sticking point is this. Insurers will not accept government competition. They fear the government would take the best risks and leave them holding the rest. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Dana Blankenhorn, Enterprise Software, Government, Insurance, Insurance Industry, Management, Mandate, Software, Strategy, Vertical Industries
- Blog posts 2009-03-25
- House IT stimulus bill lacks answer to key question
- What could open source do with $6 billion this year in building an open, coherent, and scalable set of health care IT tools? Now what would you get if you just passed that money on to existing vendors? by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Information Technology, Health Care, Nationalism, Insurance Industry, VA, Open Source, Vertical Industries, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-01-23
- Standards for Success: IBM Commitment to SOA and Standards for the Insurance Industry
- Standards-based collaboration is helping insurance companies achieve their business goals by making it easier for people, systems, and processes to work together and for businesses to communicate and interoperate within an ecosystem. The insurance industry is evolving away from monolithic, silo-based organizations towards networked models where enterprises combine to deliver...
- Tags: SOA, Standards, IBM Corp., Insurance Industry, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Insurance, Quality, Financial Planning, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance
- White papers 2005-08-01
- UDDI finally springs into action
- The insurance industry may be a conservative lot, but I've noticed they have been ahead of the curve with Web services. The industry's big challenge is that carriers rely on networks of independent or semi-independent agents up front, but run a lot of mainframes in the back. The insurance industry...
- Tags: Web, Hartford Financial Services Group, Hartford, Web service, insurance industry
- Blog posts 2004-12-06
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- Reid promises 60 on Saturday
- promises, promises, promisesHe will not get his 60 on Saturday. There are enough senators with the backbone to avoid what will be an economic catastrophe for our nation.Obama created phantom jobsSomeone did bother looking into the jobs Obama claimed to save / create and found this:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1t3zZBhJ7wBlog not about Obama or...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health care, Reid
- Discussion threads 2009-11-19
- The emergency room myth busted
- ok Dana 1 troll 0 This is a real sucker punch that i never saw coming ....Dana you are getting nastier by each post what next chomsky on the reading list :)thx for they excellent link well its hurt Racism at the heart of healhcare reform opposition.Who are more likely...
- Tags: Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, Benefits, health care, emergency room myth, Odds Ratio
- Discussion threads 2009-11-17
- Life insurance may prove difficult to get if you contract H1N1
- Insurance company business model:Only sell insurance to those who will not need it and hence not collect.For life insurance, they at least have a case, because it should not be possible to take out a $1M policy the day before you die of cancer.Health CARE however is supposed to be...
- Tags: Financial Planning, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Personal finance, payroll solutions, H1N1 flu, insurance, life insurance, health insurance, health care
- Discussion threads 2009-11-13
- I'm in a nanny state state of mind
- Business can help ...if employees who smoke during the workday are not allowed "smoking breaks" to do so. Alternatively, if non-smoking employees demanded equal breaks with smokers, business might get the drift.Some businesses do helpThere are businesses that offer smoking cessation programs on their own dime, knowing the money they'll...
- Tags: Taxes, Financial Planning, Free trade, Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, insurance, TFB, agony, smoker, tax
- Discussion threads 2009-11-13
- Why not pay for what works?
- Lawsuits not a costly issueThat's a typical republican, politcal response. Studies have been done to show that's it's a very small percentage of overall costs in healthcare. Not that tort reform wouldn't help, it's just a small issue in the big picture.Most unnecessarly procedures are generally performed...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health care, Betsy McCaughey
- Discussion threads 2009-11-11
- StatPlus 2008 Professional 5.7.2 (Windows)
- StatPlus is easy-to-use statistical data processing software application. StatPlus has a very simple, graphical user interface that provides access to a wide range of powerful and flexible statistical tools. With StatPlus 2008, one gets a robust suite of statistics tools and graphical analysis methods that are easily accessed though a...
- Tags: Data-processing, Microsoft Windows, Analysis, AnalystSoft, StatPlus, Insurance, Financial Planning, Productivity, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance
- Software downloads 2009-11-11
- House due for its health reform vote tomorrow
- the American patriots will rise againand defeat the socialist bill.All real Americans are outraged about ObamaCare and the Congress should listen to them.Only the GOP healthcare bill is the one we can afford and will improve the healthcare.Not going to passPeople do not want this socialist fiasco.RE: House due for...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, WTF, health care, insurance, patriot
- Discussion threads 2009-11-06
- GOP will present a health care bill
- Good startGood work Dana. This blog is not biased to the left (we'll see how you fare in the talkbacks though).There's of course still the question why you put politics on this IT tech site."ZDNet: Tech News, Blogs and White Papers for IT Professionals. Where Technology Means Business: ZDNet delivers...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, IT Pros, health care, No., Pelosi, GOP
- Discussion threads 2009-11-03
- Don't cry for me Joe Lieberman
- the patriots are rising against the socialist billThe Obamacare is gasping for air while the liberals are preparing to be booted out of the congress in 2010.The real Americans have risen again and upheld the values of the founding fathers against dangerous foreign socialist ideeas.End Socialism Now!Enough with the Commissar's...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, Obamacare, patriot, socialist, socialism, reconciliation, Joe Lieberman
- Discussion threads 2009-11-02
- SOMESSO: social computing meets financial services
- Next Monday and Tuesday I will be attending SOMESSO in Zurich. This is an event that covers the intersection between the financial services industry and social computing. According to the blurbs: Day 1 is reserved for corporate workshops for Finance and Banking professionals Finance Masterclass on the...
- Tags: Financial Service, Social Computing, Fidor, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-10-30
- Insurer research arm pushes comparative effectiveness
- cougarster comHey guys, do you like dating with a cougar? Or are you a cougar yourself? Okay, no matter you are looking for a NSA, FWB or serious relationship. You'll want to check this out:**== Cougarster.com ==**It's where cougars and younger men can meet(Cougar is the slang for...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, health care, troll, Dana
- Discussion threads 2009-10-28
- Carper option in final Senate health bill
- opt outdoes that mean a state can decide, whether or not, their citizens can get national health care?"Let the trolling begin in earnest."?I think you meant:"[i]Let those who disagree with me begin posting.[/i]"No......trolling is posting deliberately inflammatory remarks in order to get responses. You've even admitted you're doing that, because...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Financial Planning, U.S. Senate, health care, insurance, Carper, Lasik
- Discussion threads 2009-10-27
- iSinglePayer for iPhone 1.0 (Mobile)
- iSinglePayer for iPhone gives you a direct line to your congressperson so you can ask for effective health care reform in the United States of America. iSinglePayer for iPhone packs in the following features use GPS to automatically determine your local congressional district and state, call your local member of...
- Tags: Health Insurance, Apple iPhone, Mobile, Health Care, Floatopian, Benefits, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Insurance, Smart Phones, Human Resources, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2009-10-23
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